January 19, 2012
It seems that there is a growing number of educated British Muslim women who are unmarriageable and left to spinsterhood. Educated British Muslim women are being passed over for marriage in favour of women with more traditional values from the family’s home country. Muslim women in the UK whose families hail from the Indian sub-continent ...
January 18, 2012
Dear Madame X, There is much discussion of The Obamas, a new book by Jodi Kantor that discusses the presidential marriage. One of the topics caught my eye. Apparently Barack Obama ordered the hit on Osama Bin Laden without discussing it with his wife first. Now as President, he has no obligation to do ...
January 10, 2012
Should polygamy be banned in Canada? It’s still a valid question, but do former special prosecutor Richard Peck a favour and leave him out of it. The Vancouver lawyer was appointed to the polygamy investigation in 2007, where he recommended not pressing misconduct charges against Bountiful, B.C. individuals, but now makes it clear he wants no role ...
Tags: Bountiful,
Canada,
child marriage,
child sex trafficking,
criminal,
faith,
FLDS,
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
love,
marriage,
misconduct,
plural marriage,
polygamy,
polygamy ban in Canada,
religion,
Richard Peck,
Sister Wives,
special prosecutor,
Supreme Court of Canada,
Warren Jeffs
January 4, 2012
Fall in love in 2012? More like fall out of love and screw other people. Today is the worst day of the year for cheating, according to experts. Illicit Encounters, the “UK’s largest dating website for married people,” welcomes an astonishing 450 members each day, but yesterday, 994 people signed up. Quite the dramatic spike. ...
Tags: cabin fever,
cheat day,
cheating,
Christmas,
dating,
dating sites,
dating sites for married people,
extramarital affair,
holidays,
Illicit Encounters,
infidelity,
love,
marriage,
morality,
New Year,
new year's resolutions,
relationships,
revenge,
sexual dissatisfaction
January 4, 2012
Dear Madame X, I’ve been married to a wonderful man for five years but we’re starting to have problems with our sex life. He’s gained a lot of weight in the last year and now has a beer gut. I find him much less attractive now and don’t think I could stay with him if ...
December 30, 2011
Being single around the holidays opens people up to an interrogation about their sex life from bothersome relatives. There is also pressure at office parties, potluck dinners, and New Year’s Eve parties. But alone no longer translates into lonely. People are slower to pair off than ever before because, quite honestly, being single is fun! ...
Tags: dating,
engagement ring,
family,
fuming feminist,
invasion of privacy,
marriage,
privacy,
relationships,
single at Christmas,
singleton,
smug marrieds
November 25, 2011
So I don’t have bad karma every Thanksgiving I must say I love the spirit of this holiday. The idea is similar to Christmas and Easter in that you get together with family you may have not seen in awhile to catch up, eat and celebrate some time off work. Now that I have pacified ...
Tags: alcohol,
American Thanksgiving,
Black Friday,
chores,
consumerism,
cooking,
crappy holidays,
domestic duties,
family,
football,
fuming feminist,
gender roles,
holidays,
marriage,
relationships,
sports,
Thanksgiving,
tradition,
Turkey,
wine
November 22, 2011
Have you changed your name to your husband’s? Kept yours? Hyphenated? That’s fine and dandy, but how do you decide what to call the kids?! Here Reservoir Dad takes a look at this thorny issue. When I first started thinking about the “name change” issue — whether or not women and children should adopt their ...
Tags: changing your name,
feminism,
hyphenated last names,
maiden name,
marriage,
name changes,
names,
naming children,
parenting,
reservoir dad,
sexism,
social conditioning,
wife as property
November 15, 2011
Spiderman saves Mary Jane from free-falling to her death, Superman goes to great lengths to protect Lois Lane and, in Titanic, Jack apparently saves Rose “in every way that a person can be saved.” That’s all good and glorious, but our beloved cinematic saviours are far from real-life heroes. So it’s about time we acknowledge ...
November 11, 2011
Today may be a day of remembrance, but it’s also a day that many couples are tying the knot. Because today is 11/11/11 it is considered the “most auspicious day in a century” and signifies eternal love in “Chinese geomancy.” There have been over 5,000 marriages in Shanghai alone. There have also been group weddings ...
Tags: 11/11/11,
20/11/2011,
China,
Chinese wedding,
eternal love,
lucky date,
marriage,
November 11,
Remembrance Day,
superstition,
wedding